Butch Guice has rejoined the ranks of the employed with a new series from Humanoids. He’ll be teaming with Geoff Johns and Kris Grimminger on a Greek myth-centered 2-book series called Olympus. The story will see hell breaking loose when a team of archeology students and a band of mercenaries are trapped together on Mount …
Monthly Archive: December 2003
Dec 23
Big news for coming days
I’m still redesigning the Monitor Duty site. (I mean, more than just changing the stylesheet and logo for Christmas.) Along with the site’s new design and look, we’ll be unveiling a contest! Look for that in the coming days, as it won’t be running for too long. Winner gets a copy of a not-yet-released DVD …
Dec 23
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
I don’t care if you have 56K dialup! Watch this trailer NOW! It’s like someone poured “The Rocketeer”, the trailer for Pixar’s “The Incredibles”, “The Phantom”, “The Mask of the Phantasm” and “Superman and the Mechanical Monsters” into a cuisinart, hit frappe and then poured it into a film directed by Tim Burton. I don’t …
Dec 23
Matrix doesn’t get SFX nod
MediasharX reports that two movies have been eliminated from the list of seven that can compete for a best SFX Oscar. The two movies are “Matrix: Reloaded” and “Matrix: Revolutions!” That is baffling. The only saving grace of these two misbegotten Matrix films was that they continued the technical brilliance of the first movie, with …
Dec 23
Marvel’s all-ages comics
It used to be that if you wanted to get a kid a Marvel comic that was acceptable for him to read, here was how you did it: You went and bought any Marvel comic that was on the rack. Now, you have to look for the Marvel Age title. Oh well, it’s a start. …
Dec 23
CrossGen releases for March 2004
CGE soldiers on! Another full month of comics from CrossGen have been announced. Oddly enough, El Cazador will not be published in March. There is an El Cazador one-shot in its place, but it’s strange to allow a one-shot to replace the ongoing book. The Ruse series of “Archerd’s Agents” one-shots continues with a story …
Dec 23
Quizmas
What kind of Jedi are you? – Be Warned, there is a vulgarity in the quiz. (WHY do people do that?) Sadly, I am not a Jedi. I am Han Solo. Actually, I had to fiddle with the results to get that one; I’d originally chosen all the horny answers that related to Padme but …
Dec 22
Sales for November
Comic Numbers Slip in November DC Comics has only four books in the top 25 if you include JLA/Avengers, which led the month. Let’s leave that one aside for the moment. Marvel dominates the Top 25, with only Batman as a real exception. Teen Titans and JLA also make the list. Everything else is Marvel, …
Dec 22
Kids get “cheap” Marvel comics
New ‘Kid’ Line Only Newsstand Marvels at $2.25 The newsstand price for all Marvel comics will be $2.99 but direct market prices will be cheaper. The only newsstand Marvels selling for $2.25 will be a new book called Marvel Age featuring many Marvel Universe characters and aimed at a young readers audience.
Dec 22
LOTR – 1/4 billion $$ in 5 days!
‘King’ Rakes In a Quarter Billion dollars Wow. That’s just…wow. If there is anyone left at New Line wondering whether a Hobbit movie would be worth the money…
Dec 22
My “Return of the King” Review
I saw Lord of the Rings last Thursday. So why didn’t I post a review? Because it’s all been said. It’s great and completes a mammoth masterpiece of movie filmmaking that should get a special Oscar for this one-movie-in-three-parts. That it has its problems and overdoes the slo-mo drama a bit much. That the 40-minute …
Dec 20
PETA comics for kids bastards
PETA Lies To Children About Their Mommies Fur flies over flier: PETA targets ‘Nutcracker’ kids
Dec 19
Archie Comics Succumbs To Manga
Archie Comics, the seemingly last big comics company to jump on the manga bandwagon, has finally relented and will join their brethern by reshaping Sabrina the Teenage Witch into a manga title. The makeover will come courtesy of Tania del Rio, a winner of Tokyopop’s Rising Stars of Manga contest. This will mark del Rio’s …
Dec 18
more Christmas comics
Steve Chung did more so I fulfilled my promise and expanded the list. So go here to read that list. Mr Chung did Teen Titans #13 and a Thanos tale published in 1993. Merry Christmas
Dec 17
Theater Hopper on “Return of the King
Training the buttocks to withstand nine hours of movie watching Was the workout a success? Second feat of strength
Dec 17
Ed Brubaker will arm-wrestle you for comics
On Friday December 19th Ed Brubaker is arm-wrestling people at Isotope – the comic book lounge for free copies of the new Sleeper Trade Paperback. Beat Brubaker and you get Free Comics. Unfortunately for most of the strong-arms out there, that’s in San Fransisco. Don’t worry for Brubaker though; worry for the consumers, Brubaker lives …
Dec 17
I, too will review The Lord of the Rings
I’m seeing a matinee of “The Return of the King” at 5:20 PM, baby! I love this. I feel soooooooo….. I love this.
Dec 17
Darwyn Cooke interview regarding The New Frontier
Newsarama gives us an interview with Darwyne Cooke, and revealing slightly more about The New Frontier. I’m looking forward to this. At six books of sixty-four pages each that sums up to 384 pages total, longer than Crisis At Infinite Earths. This is something taking place in the Silver Age, which to me that means …
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